Case Study: Lancaster University achieves breakthrough multi-material voxel printing and advanced design capabilities with Stratasys GrabCAD Voxel Print

Lancaster University Pushes Design Limits with GrabCad Voxel Print Technology

Lancaster University’s ImaginationLancaster group, led by Dr. Daniel Richards, faced a gap between ambitious computational design ideas and the software tools needed to fabricate complex, multi-material objects. After finding a Stratasys J750™ 3D Printer on site and being invited into Stratasys’ GrabCAD Voxel Print™ Research Program, Richards set out to rethink CAD for advanced additive manufacturing and explore new ways to model and print volumetric textures and functionally graded structures.

Working with Stratasys’ GrabCAD Voxel Print and the J750 platform, Lancaster developed printable, evolvable volumetric texture maps and unconventional voxel grids that let designers define internal material properties at voxel scale. The Stratasys solution “completely transformed” fabrication capability by giving access to up to a trillion voxels and six materials (roughly “six to the power of a trillion” combinations), enabling seamless material graduations, new applications in prosthetics, medical devices and aerospace, and opening the door to future 4D, shape‑changing designs.

Lancaster University

Daniel Richards

Lecturer